The specimens at this table are labeled A through E.
Need:
Teliopores on huckleberry
teliospores on incense cedar
aeciospores on abies
western gall rust with aeciospores or at least with
gall
puccinia evadens on coyote brush (or the one with
aeciospores on a shrub)
1. Which specimens have teliospores?
2. Which specimens are demicycic and heteroecious with the number I stage on the conifer?
3. Name the reproductive spore indicated by the pointer? (prepared slide of uredospores of Puccinia graminis)
4. Name the plant that will be infected by this type of spore?
5. Name the sporulating structure seen at the end of the pointer? (prepared slide of basidia of Cronartium ribicola)
6. Is the fungus that produced this spore:
7. Name the order of specimen A? (specimen of Tulostoma)
8. What is the ploidy number of the stalk of this specimen?
9. What is the
technical name for the slimy material seen in the illustration of fungus B? (get
picture off of wall of a stinkhorn)
10. What is the spore dispersal mechanism of this fungus?
The specimens at this station are labeled A through E.
(need dissecting scope_some of these are in a plastic
container)
A.
Hymenochaete tabacina (effuso-reflexed)
B. Phellinus
arctostaphyii or Phellinus ignarius or P. fomentarius.
D. Stereum
specimens
E. Peniophora (resupinate)
11. Which of these fungi would be xanthochroic?
12. Which fungus has no pileus and could have a catahymenium?
13. Name the layer
indicated by the pointer? (prepared slide of bird’s nest fungus with
pointer on hymenium)
14. Name the specific structure in which number 13 is found.
15. Name the order of this fungus? (Sphaerobolus fresh specimen in plastic container)
16. What is the name given to the outer surface of the basidiocarp of this fungus?
There are four specimens (A, C, D, and E) within this plastic container and the fifth space (B) is labeled none of these
plastic container containing tooth fungi with each of
the fungi labeled.
17. Which fungus has amyloid spores and/or hyphae?
18. Which fungus is classified in the Thelephoraceae?
19. Specific name given to the hymenium of this fungus? (Clavulina cinerea in plastic container)
20. Family of this fungus?
Use the following choices for fungis 21 and 22.
(Merulius tremellosus and Dadalea sp. in plastic
container)
The type of hymenophore is
21.
22.
There are four fungi at this station
In open crisper with
23. Which fungus (fungi) is (are) classified in the Cantharellaceae?
24. Which fungus (fungi) is (are) classified in the Gomphaceae?
There are 8 labels at this station, 7 (A-H) are on fungi; the eighth (I) says none of these
25. Which fungus has only the remnants of the universal veil?
26. What is the specific name of the partial veil remnant seen in specimen F?
27. Which fungi have free (not finely adnexed) lamellae?
28. Which fungus has attached gills and only the remnants of a partial veil?
There 7 labels at this station (A-G), 6(A-F) are on fungi, the seventh (H) says none of these.
Following are slides I made. Each station will need a microscope.
29. Name the genus (Clavulina)
30. What is the ploidy number of each of the basidiospores of this fungus? Defend your answer in the space provided.
31. Describe the spores? (Leptonia with angular spores)
32. Name the family?
33. Name the type of cystidia seen in the field of view? (Pluteus)
34. Name the family (note the convergent gill trama).
35. What is the technical name given to the round cells seen in the gill trama? (Russula)
36. What is the term given for the color reaction seen in the spores of this fungus/
37. Give the technical name for the cystidia seen? (lamprocystidia and clamp connections of Inocybe)
38. Based on structures seen in the hyphae of this fungus, how would you know it was classified in the Hymenomycetes of the Basidiomycota? (none you can not use any feature seen in the hymenium of this fungus)
39. Name the order? (Tremellales)
40. Using the saccardo system of classifying spores (i. e. amerospore, didymospore, phragmospore, dictyospore), name the spore seen in the field of view?
41. Is the gill trama divergent, convergent, parallel, or interwoven? (divergent gill trama of Amanita)
42. Name the family or genus.
43. What type of mitic system does this fungus possess? (trimitic system of Trametes versicolor)
44. What would you expect for the sporocarp consistency of the fungus that had #43 mitic system?
45. Give the technical name for the cystidium seen in the field of view? (leptocystidia and fusiform spores of Suillus)
46. Give the technical name for the shape of the spores produced by this fungus?
47. Give the technical name for cystidium seen? (crystalate lamprocystidia of Peniophora)
48. The fungus has a catahymenium. What kind of sporocarps attachement would this fungus have?
49-50. This fungus is: (basidia of Dacrymyces)